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Turning on a gene switch in a single cell using infrared laser

Researchers in Japan have developed a new microscopic technology which can achieve a single-cell gene induction by heat-shock response evoked with cell heating using infrared laser irradiation under a microscope in vivo.

December 22, 2009 Read more

Neues Verfahren kann die Schichtdicke von Gold auf Schmuck halbieren

Die baden-wuerttembergischen Firma Nanocraft Coating (Engen) will mit Unterstuetzung der DBU voellig neuartige Beschichtungsverfahren entwickeln, die es ermoeglichen, Edelmetalle wesentlich duenner als bisher aufzutragen. Die DBU foerdert das Projekt mit rund 122.000 Euro.

December 22, 2009 Read more

Institute for NanoBioTechnology and Engineering in Oncology Center directors named AAAS 2009 Fellows

The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering faculty members who direct the Institute for NanoBioTechnology and Engineering in Oncology Center both have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Scientists improve data storage by stacking memory layers inside a single chip

Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Sensors Expo + Conference to co-locate with Embedded Systems Conference

Sensors Expo is dedicated to exploring the most up-to-date innovations in sensor technology including physical sensors, sensor networks, biosensors, Energy Harvesting, MEMS/Nanotechnology, instrumentation and controls, intelligent systems, machine-to-machine communication, wireless sensing and IT technology.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) provided the technology and a Visiting Scientist Fellowship that helped a Missouri State University researcher make a key discovery which should boost efforts to use carbon nanotubes as catalytic supports in direct ethanol fuel cells.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Nanotechnology collaboration aimed at curing cancers with 'smart implants'

Researchers at Northeastern's Electronic Materials Research Institute (eMRI) are collaborating with two Harvard Medical School researchers to develop a nanotechnology-based 'smart implant' to treat cancer.

December 21, 2009 Read more

California NanoSystems Institute and Japan's NOF collaborate on nanotherapeutics research

The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced a new collaboration with Japan-based NOF Corp. to explore initiatives in nanotherapeutics research for new drug-delivery systems.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Impact of CNSE educational and community outreach programs increases 20 percent over 2008

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany hosted more than 3,000 elementary, middle and high school students and over 30,000 members of the community through its educational and public outreach programs and initiatives this year, representing a 20 percent increase over 2008.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Institut of Nanotechnology becomes a Professional Affiliate of the Engineering Council

Membership of the Engineering Council will allow IoN to work closely with other Institutes licensed under EC, such as the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), with which IoN already has a memorandum of understanding to run a joint micro and nanotechnology network.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Printed electronics to control flexible displays

The Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, tesa scribos GmbH, the Universitaet Stuttgart and BASF SE want to research printed electronics in the project 'Complementary Circuit Technology for printed Displays' (German name Kosadis).

December 21, 2009 Read more

Advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are leveraging their broad and deep understanding of safe, high-energy and long-life Li-ion battery development to leap the high hurdles required for the development of commercially viable Li-air batteries.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nanomaterials

New results by scientists at Umea University show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The information is helpful in the search for new methods to develop amazing materials that could be used for instance in nanoelectronics and for energy storage.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Lab-on-a-chip measures effect of pH change on biomolecules

How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente have developed a technique for 'gently' adjusting pH: in other words, without damaging biomolecules.

December 21, 2009 Read more

Electronic nose facilitates the selection of more aromatic foods

The use of an electronic smelling system capable of discriminating which tomatoes, melons or other products have a more attractive aroma is a particularly valuable aid for agro-food firms.

December 21, 2009 Read more